Channel



May 16, 1933.

.1. s. REID CHANNEL Filed Oct. 13, 1930 INVENTOR ATTO RN EYS Patented May 16, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JAMES S. REID, GE SHAKER HEIGHTS, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE REID PRODUCTS COMPA, F CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION 01' OHIO CHANNEL Application filed October 18, 1930. Serial No.488,319.

This invention relates to glass run channel of the type used in the automotive industry. The object of the present invention is to provide a glass run channel of the yielding U type, consisting of a base and side flanges, with the latter bent not only to form finishing beads, but also to assist in holding the glass-engaging lip pads in place. Each flange is further provided with struck out loilugs curving inwardly and upwardly to form lower jaws for engaging the lip ads from. below and thereby assisting the a ove men tioned beads in holding said lip pads in place. The invention also relates to a channel formed from a single strip of metal and cut out to provide continuous longitudinal edge portions at the free or upper edges of the channel side flanges and longitudinall spaced transverse straps, each provided with 2. lug having side tongues bent inward toward each other for receiving and holding a glassenlgaging stop pad in the bottom of the channe The invention as above disclosed and other features thereofwill be apparent from the following description, drawing and claims.

In the drawin Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a piece 0 the present channel; Fig.

2 is a plan view of the metal blank from which so is formed the main member of the present channel, the view showing the various stages of cutting or lancing said blank; Fig. 3 shows a cross section of the finished channel; and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section thereof.

In producing the present channel a strip of steel 1 is cut transversely in from the two longitudinal edges thereof by transverse slits 2, Fig. 2, to provide a plurality of transverse straps. Between these slits or cuts are pairs of additional short transverse cuts or slits 3,

each cut or slit extending from point in alignment with the ends of the other cuts 2 toward the middle of the metal strip and leaving between each pair of cuts or slits 3 a space 4. The material between each cut 3 and the adjacent cut or slit 2 at the right thereof, Fig. 2, is then severed by a longitudinally disposed cut 5 lying between the ends of the cut 3 butnearer the inner end thereof.

This arrangement of cuts or slits provides transverse straps, indicated at 6, Fig. 2, lip pad engagin lugs 7, stop pad supporting lugs 8 carriegby the straps 6 and each provided with'stop pad engaging tongues 9 extending from each side thereof. The metal strip 1 thus slotted or cut is then beaded over at both of its longitudinal edges to provide inwardly and downwardly extendmg open beads indicated at, 10, Fig. 3. These beads serve to receive and hold the edges 11 of the glass-engaging lip pads 12. The lip pad engaging lugs 7 are then bent inwardly and also upwardly toward the beads 10 to engage the bottom edges of the lip pads 12. The stop pad supporting lugs 8 which are 5 integral with and are supported by the adjacent straps 6 are then bent slightly downward as shown in Fig. 4, or in other words, inwardly into the channel and their tongues 9 are bent outward ,and inward, as shown at 13 in Fig. 3, about the sides of a glass-engaging stop pad 14 placed in the bottom of the channel. The completed channel is of U- shaped cross section with a base X and side flanges Y. The entire structure is ielding and serves to support and guide t e lass of automobile windows and the like, al as will be readily understood.

What 1 claim is 1. A glass run channel, comprising a chana0 nel-shaped flexible metal member having a base and a pair of side flanges, said member being provided with a series of transversely disposed cuts each extending from a point within one side flange to a point within the other side flange and thereby providing between said cuts a series of transversely disposed, spaced straps, a longitudinall disposed glass-engaging stop pad of cushioning material in the bottom of said channel-shaped 00 member, and means integral with said straps for holding said stop pad in place. s 2. A glass run channel, comprising a channel-shaped flexible metal member havin a base and a pair of side flanges, said mem r being provided with a series of transversely dis sed cuts each extending from a point wit 'n one side flange to a point within the other side flange and thereby providing between said cuts a series of transversely disposed, spaced straps, a longitudinally disposed glass-engaging stop pad of cushioning material in the bottom of said channel shaped member, and a series of tongues integral with said straps and engaging the sides of said stop pad for holding said pad in place.

3. A glass run channel, comprising a channel-shaped flexible metal member having a base and a pair of side flanges, said member being provided with a series of transversely disposed cuts each extending from a point within one side flange to a point within the other side flange and thereby providing between said cuts a series of transversely disposed, spaced straps, the middle portion of each of said straps being provided with a laterally extending integral lug, said lugs lyin along the middle of the base of the channe -sha ed member, a longitudinally dis posed g ass engaging stop pad of cushioning material in the bottom of said channel-shaped member, and means integral with said strap lugs for holding said stop pad in place.

4. A glass run channel, comprising a channel-shaped flexible metal member having a base and a pair of side flanges, said member being provided with a series of transversely disposed cuts each extending from a point within one side flange to a point Within the other side flange and thereby providing between-said cuts a series of transversely disposed, spaced straps, the middle portion of each of said straps being provided with a laterally disposed integral lug, said lugs lying along the middle of the base of the channelshaped member and being inclined upwardly into said member, and a longitudinally dis- .posed glassengaging stop pad of cushioning material in the bottom of said channel-shaped member, said stop pad lying on and being supported by said upwardly inclined strap lugs.

5. A glass run channel, comprising a chan nel-shaped flexible metal memberhaving a base and a pair of side flan es, said member being provided with aseries of transversely disposed cuts each extending from a point within one side flange to a point within the other side flange and thereby providing between said cuts a series of transversely disposed, spaced straps, the middle portion of each of said straps being provided with a laterally disposed integral lug, said lugs lying along the middle of the base of the channel shaped member and being inclined upwardly into said member, a longitudinally disposed glass-engaging stop pad of cushioning material in the bottom of said channel shaped member, said stop pad lying on and being supported by said upwardly inclined lugs, and means integral with said lugs for holding saidstop pad in place.

6. A glass run channel, comprising a chann'el-shaped flexible metal member having a ber being provided with a series of transversely disposed cuts each extending from a point within one side flange to a point within the other side flange and thereby providing between said cuts a series of transversely disposed, spaced straps, the middle portion of each of said straps being provided with a laterally disposed inte ral lug, said lug lying along the middle 0 the base of the channel-shaped member and being inclined upwardly into said member, a longitudinally disposed glass-engaging stop pad of cushioning material in the bottom of said channel sha d member, said stop pad lying on and being supported by said upwardly inclined lugs, each of said lugs being provided at each of its ends with an integral tongue, said tongues engaging the sides of said stop pad for holding said pad in p ace.

7. A glass run channel, comprising a channel-shaped flexible metal member having a base and a pair of side flanges, said member being provided with a series of transversely disposed cuts each extending from a point within one side flange to a point within the other side flange and thereby providing between said cuts a series of transversely disposed, spaced straps, a continuously extending glass-engaging lip pad at the free or upper edge of each of said side flanges, and a plurality of lugs struck from said side flanges betiween said straps for supporting said lip pa s.

- 8. A glass run channel, comprising a channel-shaped flexible metal member having a base and a pair of side flanges, said member being provided with a series of transversely disposed cuts, each extending from a point within one side flange to'a point within the other side flange and thereby providing between said cutsa series of transversely disposed, spaced straps, the middle portion of each of said straps being provided with a laterally extending integral lug, said lugs lying along the middle of the base of the channel-shaped member, a longitudinally disposed glass-engaging stop pad of cushioning material in the bottom of said channel shaped member, means integral with said strap lugs for holding said stop pad in place, a continuously extending glass-engaging lip pad at the free or upper edge of each of said side flanges, and a pluralityof In S struck from said side flanges between said straps for supporting said lip pads, each of said lip pad supporting lugs being in transverse alignment with one of said stra lugs.

In testimony whereof I hereby a x my signature.

JAMES S. REID.

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